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Video: Stephen Colbert on That Bombshell New York Times Op-Ed

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KGxvi9/06/2018 12:51:18 am PDT

re: #29 goddamnedfrank

Another reason I think it’s Pence is that it makes sense that he’d be at a crisis point where he somehow thought throwing gasoline on the dumpster fire of the administration was the only way he might ever be President. All of the other suspects would obviously prefer order over Trump’s chaos and I’m sure they’re frustrated and hoping to ameliorate Trump’s worst tendencies just as the op-ed says, but to my mind none of them have the perfect alignment that Pence does of cui bono, myopia and ego.

Pence also has the luxury of being the only person in the building that Trump can’t fire, since he’s technically an independently elected constitutional officer. Trump could freeze him out, and the job would return to the old bit about being worth a bucket of warm piss… but then again, if the Senate ends up 50-50 and Pence really wants to be an asshole to Trump…